The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-14

to the inspector of markets at Vienna a printed
form. which, filled up. read as follows: IA par
eel Is lying at the customs addressed to the
Countess de Trani- Please inform us If the
sender, the empress of Austria, resides at Wen
ma and is pork butcher by trade" The infor-
nation was returned, but the inquiry caused no
little laughter at the pa, ice.
DURING an exciting game of poker in st. Paul.
the other day, one gambler bet his wife as the
equivalent for $500 and raised his opponent $3.50
The latter acalled," found he held four trays TO
the others four deuces and, after raking in the
stakes, put on his hat and ran. He was bach
elor and is said to have known the lady.
PUoK Mrs. Jenness Miller, of dress-reform
renown. will confer great favor on humanity
if she will invent pocket for a woman's skirt
which can be found by the average husband
when the dress is hanging in the closet. Gray
hairs Will turn raven again; and Mrs. Mlllers
monument will grow right out of the ground
itself.
Mr.. BEEcHER's funeral will remind the world
of the funeral of Disraeli, the great English
statesman and author. There was no feature of
that funeral that was not emblematic of Joy.
The grave itself was bed of flowers. Flowers
strewed the paths to the grave There was no
sign of gloom. no shadow anywhere. 1t was
funeral for the dead, not for the living.
IT is said that James Monroe Trotter. the new
recorder. is lineal descendant of John Trot-
ter who taught George Washington how to
dance. John Trotter was genteel white man,
and james M. is said TO preserve the face and
figure of his ancestor. 1t is written in history
that George Washington was gallant and long
winded dancer, and did his teacher great credit.
CONGRESSMAN S. S. Cox speaks very highly
of G. Harris Heap, the lately deceased Amer
lean consul at Constantinople. He says: I'm
my relations with Mr.. Heap personally and
officially, l say that, In all my observation
| in public life, [ never knew q man entirely
| faultess. l cannot recall one mistake that he
| ever made, either in matters of courtesy or or
| duty"
| SACKETT, the newly-appointed postmaster of
Buffalo, is an undertaken. His appointment
was urged on the ground that he would unite
the Buffalo Democracy. One of the Buffalo
| leaders approached the President and strongly
| opposed :he appointments of Sackett But he
| will unite the party in Buffalo," said Mr.. Ceve-
| land. Eyes" answered the disguised politician,
unite it in death. That's his business. He's an
undertaken"
a WRITER in the Pail Mall Gazette recalls the
story of the late Philip Bourke Marstons love
| tragedy. Blind from boyhood, when he was
| still young man he became engaged to a beau
| tiful young lady, and the time of their wedding
was near at hand. They were together in the
| parlor one day. Suddenly he noticed that she
no longer spoke to him. He called her. but there
! was reply. He CROPPED about the room in
| search of her. found her on the sofa, and put his
hand upon her face, only to find that she was
| dead.
KANSAS women seem to be ready to make use
of the new law which permits them to vote al
municipal elections. Some of the newspapers
say that the wome are registering earlier and in
greater numbers than thu male population. A
touching scene of registration occurred in To
peka. The ladies of the Lincoln Post, thirty
WIVES mothers sisters and daughters of the
union soldiers of the Rebellion went in body
and registered, headed by an old lady seventy
one years of age who had been sufragist fol
forty years.
POSTMASTER l.. DAVIS, of the town OF Solar
Jackson county. Illinois, receives the very mod
crate salary of 10 cents year The postmaste
of Peck, ILL.,. got 80 cents last year, while the
postmaster of Lear Ark. got 81 cents. 1t is
said that there more than 900 postmastert
who receive more than $40 year, and 10, 00i
who receive about 50 year. When a hungr,
Democrat gets of these offices he at once
settles down to a steady diet of wind pudding
instead of battening on the spoils Of victory a.
| he anticipated